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Mechanical engineering professor David Wallace (right of center in top hat) was surprised with a tribute video for his 20 years of teaching the “product engineering processes” class, before course instructors shot streams of confetti over the audience.

Students unveil “magical” product designs

Final presentations in mechanical engineering class show devices for climbers, patients, and others.

December 8, 2015

A favorite BioBuilder lab among students, Kuldell says, is called “Eau That Smell,” which involves examining bacteria engineered to smell like ripe bananas at a certain stage of their growth. Students also enjoy “What a Colorful World,” a lab where students study E. coli programmed to change colors. Another lab, “Golden Bread,” has students add beta-carotene to baker’s yeast.

Bringing synthetic biology education to life

Nonprofit provides hands-on experiments to students and teachers worldwide.

December 4, 2015

New PBS KIDS ScratchJr app launches

Developed in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and Tufts University, the PBS KIDS ScratchJr app helps children ages 5-8 learn coding concepts.

December 3, 2015

Josh Stillerman (left) and Bob Mumgaard help guide conference attendee Deedee Ortiz through virtual rooms of a 3-D tokamak fusion device.

Sharing fusion research with 3-D, video games, and comics

Members of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center wow colleagues, students, and teachers with a 3-D tour of the Institute's nuclear fusion experiment.

November 30, 2015

The 18th annual Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction at MIT will feature an enormous and unique Rube Goldberg-style device.

Come one, come all: 18th Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.) Chain Reaction at MIT

18th century-themed Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction presented by the MIT Museum to be held at MIT's Rockwell Cage Gymnasium.

November 25, 2015

Bert Forbes holds a 3-D printed milk drop modeled after Doc Edgerton’s photo. Also pictured: J. Kim Vandiver and Candace Forbes.

Gift from Candace and Bert Forbes ’66 creates endowment to support directorship of the Edgerton Center

November 16, 2015

Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to the Kuiper belt, spoke at ScienceWriters2015 about mission results from a Pluto flyby in July and communications strategies.

Bringing “the greatest show in the universe” to the people

MIT hosts national ScienceWriters2015 conference.

October 15, 2015

2015 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams grant winners hail from around the United States.

High School teams awarded 2015-16 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grants for invention projects

Fourteen student teams nationwide address social and environmental issues through invention.

October 14, 2015

The Robot Garden, displayed at CSAIL, included plastic, illuminating flowers “planted” on a large board that can be controlled via computer.

Neighborhood of innovation

HUBweek events showcase the scientific and technological advances at MIT and around Kendall Square.

October 9, 2015

(Left to right) MIT Professor Anant Agarwal moderated "Roundtable: The Challenges Facing Education Transformation," which included Jeffrey Young, superintendent of Cambridge Public Schools, and MIT President L. Rafael Reif.

Reimagining high school

Education experts discuss how to transform the American high school during Solve event.

October 9, 2015

"Kreyòl pale, kreyòl konprann," by artist cooperative Kalfou Richès, was a gift to the MIT-Haiti Initiative. The title translates to: “When Kreyòl is spoken, Kreyòl speakers understand.”

Haitian educators and MIT faculty develop Kreyòl-based teaching tools

Project led by linguist Michel DeGraff is revolutionizing education in Haiti, and serving as a model for similar projects around the world.

October 7, 2015

Celebrating 40 years of MITES

MITES 40th Anniversary Kickoff Weekend launches yearlong celebration of MIT program for high school students.

October 1, 2015

LLCipher workshop designer and instructor Sophia Yakoubov at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory

High-school students decipher cryptography

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory's LLCipher workshop, students practice critical thinking and learn some cybersecurity basics.

September 25, 2015

Middle school students Halle Armstrong, Jeffery Alphonso, Angelique Jean-Noel, and Kamaru Oseni use wooden skewers to build marshmallow towers on the first day of Engineering Design in the 2015 MIT STEM Summer Institute.

Middle schoolers get hands-on in summer engineering design course

Eighth graders from Boston, Cambridge, and Lawrence, Massachusetts, learn from recent MIT graduates as part of STEM Summer Institute.

September 16, 2015

Jay Whitacre, winner of the 2015 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

Jay Whitacre wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention of a revolutionary battery

First mass-produced, low-cost, eco-friendly battery has the potential to transition the world toward a more sustainable energy future.

September 15, 2015

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